reInvent Amazon Web Services adds more data and ML services, but when is enough enough
0reInvent Amazon Web Services adds more data and ML services, but when is enough enough.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy invoked the Lauren Hill song "Everything is Everything" at last week's re:Invent event in Las Vegas to underscore his assertion that AWS has more than twice the number of services of any other public cloud. The question is, will the services catalog ever become - or, indeed, is it already - so extensive that it becomes unwieldy from a customer development, deployment, and cost-management perspective?
This year's re:Invent followed the more-more-more pattern of past events, with more attendees, more exhibitors, more floor space and, you guessed it, yet more services and capabilities announced. That was certainly the case in the data and analytics arenas, with announcements across database, big-data management, analytics, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes less is more, however, a point I'll get back to in my conclusion, but let's start with a recap of what I see as the most important data-to-decisions related announcements.